[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.2.7; cannot get help for contour()

[Sebastian Luque]

Hi Stephen,

Sorry for that, I thought ess-submit-bug-report would provide more help.

Here is the *Backtrace*:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable comint-last-output-start)
  ansi-color-process-output("")
  run-hook-with-args(ansi-color-process-output "")
  comint-send-input()
  inferior-ess-send-input()
  call-interactively(inferior-ess-send-input)


Regards,
Sebastian


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:49:17 +0100,
Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> hmm... 
>
> ?contour  in *R* generates the right help page for me.  
>
>> I have found that I cannot get help for the 'contour' function neither
>> in a ESS mode buffer nor in a iESS one. In both cases, if I say C-c
>> C-v, I get a "no documentation" message. If I say ?contour in the iESS
>> buffer, I get the message:
>>
>> Symbol's value as variable is void: comint-last-output-start
>
> Can you try following advice in the manual:
>
> If Emacs reports an error, backtraces can help us debug the problem.
> Type "M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET".  Then run the
> command that causes the error and you should see a *Backtrace* buffer
> containing debug information; send us that buffer.
>
> thanks, stephen